Photo Gallery: Week’s Best Photos for Jan. 23-29, 2011

Polly Pulver, right, of Cedaredge celebrates as she is announced Best in Show by Mike Trecker of Aspen at the Vintage Ski Race on the Grand Mesa Saturday.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Wearing a pair of 70-year-old real loederhosen form Germany, Dominic Schiavone of Durango skis toward the finish line on wooden skis from the early 1970s during the Vintage Ski Race at Skyway on the Grand Mesa Saturday.

Photo by Dean Humphrey

Mike Berry, founder of Kids Aid, receives the Citizen of the Year at the Grand Junction Area Chamber banquet at Two Rivers CC.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Max Connors, left, Josh Ott, center, and Michelle Cools are opening a new theater called Mirth at the site of the old Hot Tomato, 201 E. Aspen Ave., in Fruita.

Photo by William Woody

Climber Rob Cordery-Cotter, lower right, was the first finalist to compete in the 2008 Ouray Ice Festival climbing finals Saturday morning Jan. 12, 2008, in Ouray. Hundreds of people attended the event to watch 17 finalists compete on the tough technical route that consisted largely of rock. The climbers also had to negotiate small patches of ice and two suspended wooded poles which lead to a 45-degree wooden overhang that completed the course.

Photo by Dean Humphrey

Adrian Soleta, a supervisor with Main Street Bagels and Artisan Bread Bakery at 6th and Main Streets, fills an order while wearing a hard hat. Main Street in that area is under construction with the Uplift Project. The bakery plans to have specials for anyone wearing a hard hat. In the interim, a sense of humor is in order.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Chris Brown, owner of Brown Cycles takes a ride on a Monovelo down Main Street in downtown Grand Junction Sunday.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Academy students wolf down lunch, chat, or just relax during a lunch break at the Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s community room after spending the morning on the slopes and before the bus arrives to pick them up at 12:30 p.m. to take them to regular school classes at Minturn Middle School.

Jubae Legg, 12, of Grand Junction reaches out to catch a frisbee as he chases it down during a game with two older friends from his church at Lincoln Park on Thursday.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

James Wilson of Grand Junction takes to the air as he negotiates the jumps at the Lunch Loop Bike Park. Wilson, who is the Yeti mountain bike team training coach, was working with team member Chris Boice of Albuquerque, N.M., on skills at the park

Photo by Dean Humphrey

A small flock of Canada geese fly towards the Colorado River as the Grand Mesa is shrouded in clouds.

Photo by William Woody

Lenord Dorr, owner of the new Homebrew Connection in Montrose, stands in front of dozens of beer brewing supplies in his shop on 20 South Nevada Avenue in Montrose.

Photo by Richie Ann Ashcraft

Jerry Wigutow laughs with the staff at Homeward Bound Tuesday after making a large donation to the shelter.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Photo by Dean Humphrey

Internationally renowned comic book expert Charlie Novinskie of Grand Junction presents Alter Egos and Sidekicks: The Comic Book Presence in “Await Your Reply” at the Mesa County Library Monday night. As with the One Book selection “Await Your Reply”, Alter ego themes in comic books mirror identity theft themes in the book, according to Novinskie.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

A lone snow covered pine tree is lit by sunlight on the Grand Mesa near the Mesa Lake Resort.